"I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it."

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Source : "Collective Ownership of Code and Text: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part II". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. December 01, 2003.

Ward Cunningham

#Mean Quotes #Worry Quotes #Decision Quotes

“The Rosary is THE weapon.”
“There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.”
“We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.”
“Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.
“They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.”
“[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.”
“I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.”
“If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.”

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